incubator-general mailing list archives

The Incubator is running actively and (relatively) smoothly, with nothing
requiring the Board's attention at this time. In general, the Incubator has
both a lot of activity and a lot of attention.
Sebb and Joe have been contributing to tuning the release process for
publishing Incubator artifacts.
Last month we mentioned that Bill Stoddard had a face-to-face meeting with
the Bluesky team. This was a misunderstanding, as was confirmed by a phone
discussion with Bill, but Bill has been making good communication progress
with them. This month's report reflects the continued results of Bill's
efforts. Bill's goal is to have working code in the ASF repository within
the month. Once there is working, buildable code, that is not
GPL-dependent, it should be easier to start to grow a community around
Bluesky.
There was some discussion of changing the release voting process to "make
things easier" for podlings, and an interesting observation is that some of
the people most vocally against the change were those who had come into the
ASF on podlings, and felt that they had benefited from and learned from the
current process, and wanted to keep it as-is.
A potentially significant new project, Apache Aries, has gotten a lot of
discussion and attention during the past month as it was voted into
Incubation. Apache Aries project is intended to "deliver a set of pluggable
Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model."
It proposes to collaborate with Apache Felix, Geronimo, CXF and other
projects. There has been discussion of whether Apache Aries will end up as
a TLP or part of Felix, but for now it is just a proposal to Incubate. See
also: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AriesProposal
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Bluesky
BlueSky has been incubating since 01-12-2008. It is an e-learning solution
designed to help solve the disparity in availability of qualified education
between well-developed cities and poorer regions of China.
Things are getting better in the last month. First, some critical legal
issues which bothers us long time like FFmpeg are solved. Also, we deleted
1394dv support for legal problem, but we believe that would not affect the
functionalities. Currently, the only legal issue is ARTS/OSS, and we've
already replaced ARTS with SDL, however, it needs sometime to make the whole
system run successfully. And we would use ALSA compiled in LGPL way to
replace OSS. There are some other good news too. More developers are joining
the mailing list and a core team, i believe, is gradually establishing in
XJTU. We now aims to the first release and next step we will try to attract
more developers on bulletin board system at XJTU to contribute to the future
version of RealClass.
Plus, MERSMP team, which is in charge of the developing of MERSMP system,
now join the dev-mailing list. Together with MERSMP team, we believe that we
could make much more achievement in the future. And we still need the
committer account so that we commit recent changes of website?code etc. Hope
the accounts could be approved soon.
the inactive committer account:
1.okid a.k.a Dong Yang
2.stellagjj a.k.a JingJing Gao
3.zhangfan a.k.a Fan Zhang
and the new committers would be:
1.mabowen a.k.a Samuel Kevin
2.chenping a.k.a Arthur Chen
top 2 or 3 to resolve prior to first release:
* Replace ARTS with SDL and make the system work;
* Complete the infomation about BlueSky on wiki and official website;
* As to MERSMP team, they need sometime to get used to the Apache way;
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Cassandra
Cassandra is a distributed storage system providing reliability at a massive
scale. Started incubation: 01/2009. Opened to community in 03/2009.
Past action items:
* Vote on committers Eric Evans and Jun Rao. Done. (And accepted.)
* Get 0.3.0 release out. Done.
Other notable milestones:
* Digg is running a Cassandra cluster of almost 10 TB now.
Next steps:
* Get 0.4.0 release out. (Beta1 was released a couple weeks ago; RC1 is
being voted on now.)
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Click
Click is a stateless page and component oriented Java web framework.
Click has been incubating since July 2008.
Tasks completed since June:
* New Committer: Adrian Antal
* Released Click 2.1.0-RC1, our second Apache release
* Released Click 1.5.3, a non-Apache maintenance release hosted at
!SourceForge
Top priorities:
* Release Apache Click 2.1.0
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ESME
Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment (ESME) is a secure and highly
scalable microsharing and micromessaging platform that allows people to
discover and meet one another and get controlled access to other sources of
information, all in a business process context.
ESME entered the incubator in 2008-12-02.
The following items have been performed since the last reporting period
* Creation of Apache Wiki as Podling's main web site - replacing old
forrest site. This is an ongoing task but
is off to a good start.
* Dick Hirsch was accepted as an Apache committer.
* Implementation of access pools in main branch
* Creation of branch to deal with access pools prototype
* Started work on new UI
* Patch committed from new developer
The following items are planned for the next reporting period:
* Conitinue work on wiki and move more content from mailing list to the
wiki
* Work on new UI
Top 2 or 3 things to resolve prior to graduation
* Move all collaboration to the esme-dev mailing list
* Increase community involvement in the project
* First Apache release
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Etch
Etch was accepted into Incubator on 2 September 2008. We had our first
birthday!
Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent framework for
building and consuming network services. The Etchtoolset includes a network
service description language, a compiler, and binding libraries for a
variety of programming languages.
Diaspora!
Most all of the Cisco-based Etch team found themselves unemployed by Cisco
this quarter. So this quarter has been marked with little technical progress
as the team members find new homes for themselves. Despite the disruption,
Youngjin has begun to pickup on the C-binding work started by James DeCocq.
Release 1.1 is ready but needs some administrative polish before it is
*done*.
Release 1.2 is next in the pipeline.
Our problem with finding a home for our continuous build continues. Various
plans have been proposed and failed due to lack of a Windows-friendly c#
build environment. We need to find a place do public builds.
Outstanding items:
* More community.. we have been Cisco-centered with just a few nibbles
outside of Cisco. Things are definitely changing with members employed or so
to be employed in different places. Building a stronger community over the
next several months is our key task.
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Hama
Hama has been incubating since 19 May, 2008. It is a parallel matrix
computational package based on Hadoop Map/Reduce.
Recent developments:
* We implemented EigenValue Decomposition, based on Map/Reduce computing
model
* We start considering about another computing model based Bulk Synchronous
Parallel on Hadoop
* We start preparing a paper of this project
Required before graduation:
* More practical examples of matrix manipulation
* Increase community size and activity
* First Apache release
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Kato
Kato was accepted into the Incubator on 6 November 2008.
Kato is a project to develop the Specification, Reference Implementation,
and TCK for JSR 326: the JVM Post-mortem Diagnostics API
Recent Activity:
* A JVMTI agent has been contributed by Paul Sobek along with an
implementation of the API.
* The JSR specification document has been written and is building.
* The JSR specification has been submitted to the JCP as an EDR.
* The project is being built on the ASF's hudson server.
The following is planned for next reporting period:
* Our first release of the RI, demos and TCK.
Before this project can be graduated we need to produce a usable
implementation of the API and more useful tools to encourage adoption and
participation of a much needed community.
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Log4php
Log4PHP is a logging framework similar to Log4J, but in PHP. The project
entered incubation in 2004, retired and restarted again on 2007-07-04.
Since the last report there has been much activity. Slightly more activity
from community could be reckognized. Several patches from contributors came
in.
Enviroment:
* Website has been updated. We plan to do this on a regular basis now via
Buildbot
* Blog has been activated (http://blogs.apache.org/log4php)
* Christian Grobmeier has been elected as new PPMC-Member
Code:
* Maven has been established as build tool
* PHP5 port has been finished
* buildbot has been established
(http://ci.apache.org/builders/log4php-trunk)
* Lots of code upgrades, fixes etc.
Next steps:
* Stabilizing/Cleaning up code for the first release
* Try to attract more developers for Log4PHP
* Looking at getting an incubating release done.
Issues before graduation:
* Still less community interaction
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OpenWebBeans
OpenWebBeans is an ASL-licensed implementation of the JSR-299:
Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform which is defined
as JSR-299.
OpenWebBeans entered the incubator in October 26, 2008. The following
items have been made after the last report
* We cut a M3 release (under vote)
* We implemented a new spec. features, (Portable Extensions, and changed
APIs)
* We created a JSR-330 API and integrated with it
* We integrated with embeddable OpenEJB in Tomcat to support EJB Beans
* We implemented 2 new samples related with EJB Beans and JMS Injections
* We started a progress to integrate OWB with Apache Geronimo
Belows are the next steps;
* We will release the M4 version.
* We will integrate with the Apache Geronimo
* We will create more documentations in the wiki
* We will continue to attract new committers into the project.
* We will strive to create more community and increase the use of user@list
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RAT
RAT has been reasonably quiet though the summer of code project has been
very active over at Google. Initial enthusiasm for developing crawling
capabilities was stalled by the lack of quick progress towards a release by
Driods.
Progress on graduation is still stalled by the lack of a suitable TLP to
home the project. RAT illustrates well the inability of the incubator system
to work for existing small but open projects without a nominating TLP. If
Apache wants to accept more projects of this nature, some process rethinking
is needed.
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River
River is aimed at the development and advancement of the Jini technology
core infrastructure. Jini technology is a service oriented architecture that
defines a programming model which both exploits and extends Java technology
to enable the construction of secure, distributed systems which are adaptive
to change. River has been incubating since December 2006.
Recent efforts included replacing make build scripts with ant and
integrating the qa test suite with the main build. The jtreg test suite has
some remaining issues to solve, namely setup and configure a Kerberos KDC
test server, a zone has been set up for this purpose at
river.zones.apache.org , in a addition a proxy server is also required to
replace the functionality of the sun jiniproxy server. Most jtreg tests are
passing, it would be desirable to have all pass prior to releasing AR2.
Minor modifications need to be made to the ant build scripts to build the
ClassDep.jar manifest correctly to include required libraries following
recent ClassDep reimplementation changes to eliminate dependency upon
internal implementation of Sun's JDK. Once resolved we are clear to release
AR2.
There has been some some recent interest in implementing compression and
caching of bytecode. Other interests include class versioning and codebase
services.
After AR2, focus will be on support for Java 5 features, such as annotations
and reducing the barriers to entry for new contributor developers.
Required before graduation:
* AR2 Release
* Change com.sun.jini.* namespace to org.apache.river.*
* Reduce barriers to entry for new developers.
* Increased committer participation.
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Shindig
Shindig is a reference implementation of the OpenSocial and gadgets stack.
The active community has built two parallel implementations of the
!OpenSocial and gadgets spec; one in Java and one in PHP.
Incubating since: 2007-12-06
High-level status summary during last quarter:
* stable release compliant to OpenSocial v0.9 currently being reviewed by
PMC
* updates for !OpenSocial v0.9 are implemented and in production on several
sites that support OpenSocial
* two new committers joined the community. The committer base on the Java
side is relatively varied. However, until now we have had a single committer
working on the PHP implementation. This changed with the addition of two new
committers focussing on PHP. The lack of committer count (and thus
diversity) on PHP was a graduation issue. The addition of these two
committers certainly moves the project in the right direction regarding
graduation.
Requirements for graduation:
* Discussion about graduation is ongoing. The most pressing need that was
identified was to diversify our committer base for PHP. In many other ways,
the project and community are in very good shape.
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SocialSite
*** DID NOT REPORT
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Traffic Server
This last month, the team has worked hard on code cleanup, preparing the
code for submission into the Incubator SVN server. We still have some
cleanup to do, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Traffic Server
is having a Meetup at ApacheCon, Tuesday night, where we will present our
progress, as well as give an overview of the code architecture, and typical
use case scenarios for TS. Our goal is of course to be done with the code
cleanup, and SVN migration, well before ApacheCon.
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VXQuery
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor.
It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06.
August activities:
* some code additions
* some progress on CCLAs (still not done)
Completed setup steps:
* JIRA/Wiki set up
* SVN access for initial committers set up
* Initial codebase submitted to SVN
* Mailing lists set up
* All ICLAs and most CCLAs in place
* Setup status page: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/vxquery.html
Immediate goals:
* Get all CCLAs in place
* Fix mailing list issues
* Setup project home page
Top 3 issues before graduation:
* Complete podling setup
* Build community
* Create a release
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Wink
Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of REST
style web services. The core server runtime is based on the JAX-RS (JSR 311)
standard. The project also introduces a client runtime which can leverage
certain components of the server-side runtime. Apache Wink will deliver
component technology that can be easily integrated into a variety of
environments.
Apache Wink has been incubating since 2009-05-27.
Notable Activity:
* After issues with packaging and licensing were resolved, Wink made its
first release! Thanks to IPMC and others who reviewed the release
artifacts.
* Spread the word of the release via various channels.
* RSS support was added into Apache Wink.
Planned Activity:
* Bug fixes and feature improvements after first release.
* More updates to documentation on cwiki
Top issues before graduation:
* Looking into how to interact with other communities
* Build community
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Wookie
Apache Wookie (Incubating) is a project to create open source software for
adding widgets to your applications. It has been in incubation since July
2009.
* No issues currently require IPMC or Board attention
* We are still waiting for ICLAs and CCLAs in order to import incubator
code to ASF repository
* Account created: Kris Popat (krispopat)
* Account created: Scott Wilson (scottbw)
* Stef Heyenrath iCLA submitted
* Wookie Meetup proposal sent to ConCom
* OpenSocial/SocialSite/Wookie meetup at ApacheCon being organized
* Incubation status file requires updating -
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/wookie.html
* JIRA Activity is increasing and patches are starting to arrive
* During the next month we hope to:
* file all CLAs
* move code into ASF
Items to be resolved before graduation:
* Complete podling setup
* Create a release
* Develop community
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